Wall Street Journal Magazine - Neural Links

Illustrations for the Wall Street Journal's The Future of Everything magazine.

I was asked to create some illustrations for the magazine's article about neural links, body augmentations and hi-tech prosthetics.

The article also talks about how machines are being thought to replicate human movement and how much of a challenge that is.

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Process

For the opening illustration I went for a really over the top interpretation of the subject. I drew a cyberhipster character (kinda like a cyberpunk character, but not so cool) with all these augmentations and technological prosthetics.​​​​​​​

For the second one, I illustrated the real life technology of brain implants. To be honest I just added some sci-fi flair to it, because the real thing looks almost exactly like this.

And for the final spot illustration I drew a robot arm struggling with a simple task. I created a few options with examples discussed in the article and my AD went for the coffee mug option.